Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:37 pm Posts: 15767 Location: Vail, CO Gender: Male
SLH916 wrote:
stip wrote:
bump for slh916
Thanks stip,
It's hard for me to talk about this song rationally. I really, really hate it. I hate everything about it, the vocals, the arrangement, everything. I dread putting in Binaural because I know that if I'm not standing next to my CD player, I'll be forced to listen to the beginning of this song.
But, it's still not a bad song. I recognize that it may even be a brilliant song, and it's certainly something different for them. I gave it 3 stars because I can't be objective about it. It's charms are lost on me.
you know....I really wanted to make out with you before this post....
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I want to like this song, I really do. it has so many good ingredients ... but they just seem to come together to form something bland and somehow less than the sum of their parts.
The music is great. I love the intro, love the solo, love it all. I know it's a Binaural song, but the song always makes me think of wide open Montana skies a la Yield. Huge sound for a huge place.
The lyrics aren't bad, but they don't really do anything for me. They do seem to fit the song and I like the way ed delivers them (though the megaphone thing is tiring live).
The problem for me is that the song just doesn't seem to fit. It doesn't fit on the album and it doesn't fit at live shows, at least not where it's usually played. The song is just too moody, too open, too dark. It's a first encore kind of song, but in 2000 it always got stuck right around song 6 or 7 and it just killed the momentum of those sets. (I realize you need something to slow it down, but this song never worked for me.) I might like it as the first song coming back from an encore, or even maybe as an opener. The problem is that it doesn't fit between things very well. It's not exactly a closer, either, but i could see it working as the last song on side A of a record.
It's hard for me to talk about this song rationally. I really, really hate it. I hate everything about it, the vocals, the arrangement, everything. I dread putting in Binaural because I know that if I'm not standing next to my CD player, I'll be forced to listen to the beginning of this song.
But, it's still not a bad song. I recognize that it may even be a brilliant song, and it's certainly something different for them. I gave it 3 stars because I can't be objective about it. It's charms are lost on me.
you know....I really wanted to make out with you before this post....
that detroit version you posted the other day is sooo good.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:37 pm Posts: 15767 Location: Vail, CO Gender: Male
conoalias wrote:
62strat wrote:
SLH916 wrote:
stip wrote:
bump for slh916
Thanks stip,
It's hard for me to talk about this song rationally. I really, really hate it. I hate everything about it, the vocals, the arrangement, everything. I dread putting in Binaural because I know that if I'm not standing next to my CD player, I'll be forced to listen to the beginning of this song.
But, it's still not a bad song. I recognize that it may even be a brilliant song, and it's certainly something different for them. I gave it 3 stars because I can't be objective about it. It's charms are lost on me.
you know....I really wanted to make out with you before this post....
that detroit version you posted the other day is sooo good.
thanks, i appreciate that. That is how the song should be played. When ed brings it up in the register is just mind blowing.
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62strat wrote:
conoalias wrote:
62strat wrote:
SLH916 wrote:
stip wrote:
bump for slh916
Thanks stip,
It's hard for me to talk about this song rationally. I really, really hate it. I hate everything about it, the vocals, the arrangement, everything. I dread putting in Binaural because I know that if I'm not standing next to my CD player, I'll be forced to listen to the beginning of this song.
But, it's still not a bad song. I recognize that it may even be a brilliant song, and it's certainly something different for them. I gave it 3 stars because I can't be objective about it. It's charms are lost on me.
you know....I really wanted to make out with you before this post....
that detroit version you posted the other day is sooo good.
thanks, i appreciate that. That is how the song should be played. When ed brings it up in the register is just mind blowing.
Agreed, I also love it when Ed sings the bridge in Man of the Hour in a higher register, too....it sounds so much more powerful than the studio recording.
Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
agreed
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it's kinda weird how Eddie at the end of that version apologized for what he thought was the biggest fuck up of the tour. You'd think he'd go "oh shit, that works really well" instead.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:37 pm Posts: 15767 Location: Vail, CO Gender: Male
conoalias wrote:
it's kinda weird how Eddie at the end of that version apologized for what he thought was the biggest fuck up of the tour. You'd think he'd go "oh shit, that works really well" instead.
no shit, thats why i want to send him a copy of that song and have him apologize to me for apologizing to me, and then apologize for not always rocking that song in suc ha way.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:39 pm Posts: 9981 Location: NYC/Savannah
conoalias wrote:
it's kinda weird how Eddie at the end of that version apologized for what he thought was the biggest fuck up of the tour. You'd think he'd go "oh shit, that works really well" instead.
well, he did fuck up the lyrics, which led to a great version of the song.
I really, really, really like this song. Probably do not want to hear at every show, but this is an intense song
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:39 pm Posts: 9981 Location: NYC/Savannah
conoalias wrote:
I...I..
hehe...it's ok, redeem yourself by writing a 300-word essay on the exact moment of the screw up and how it turned the moment into a blistering positive
_________________ I don’t understand a word of these emails and I am ok with that. -KC
I just try to ask as many questions as I can, and then I try to sit down and write a story that people will want to read. – Chris Jones
hehe...it's ok, redeem yourself by writing a 300-word essay on the exact moment of the screw up and how it turned the moment into a blistering positive
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:39 pm Posts: 9981 Location: NYC/Savannah
conoalias wrote:
denverapolis wrote:
i'm going to check out this detroit version
'00 mind you.
chinofstone wrote:
conoalias wrote:
I...I..
hehe...it's ok, redeem yourself by writing a 300-word essay on the exact moment of the screw up and how it turned the moment into a blistering positive
so, you're not going to write the essay, eh?
_________________ I don’t understand a word of these emails and I am ok with that. -KC
I just try to ask as many questions as I can, and then I try to sit down and write a story that people will want to read. – Chris Jones
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